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'Millions like us'? : British culture in the Second World War
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'Millions like us'? : British culture in the Second World War

Author: Nick Hayes; Jeff Hill
Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999.
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"This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. How this war was presented to, and understood by, contemporaries differentiated it from earlier conflicts, signified by 'the people' pulling together - through an inclusive Millions Like Us homogeneousness - to secure victory and a socially equitable peace. Whether or not the  Read more...
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'Millions like us'?
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607455037
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Nick Hayes; Jeff Hill
ISBN: 0853237638 9780853237631 0853237735 9780853237730
OCLC Number: 41071974
Description: ix, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: An 'English war': wartime culture and 'Millions like us" / Nick Hayes --
British cinema and 'the people's war' / James Chapman --
The people's radio : the BBC and its audience, 1939-1945 / Siân Nicholas --
Was it the Mirror wot won it? The development of the tabloid press during the Second World War / Michael Bromley --
A more even playing field? Sport during and after the war / Norman Baker --
A time for hard writers : the impact of war on women writers / Joanna Alberti --
Safe and sound : new music in wartime Britain / Robert Mackay --
More than 'music-while-you-eat'? Factory and hostel concerts, 'good culture' and the workers / Nick Hayes --
'When work is over' : labour, leisure and culture in wartime Britain / Jeff Hill --
Not just a case of baths, canteens and rehabilitation centres : the Second World War and the recreational provision of the Miners' Welfare Commission in coalmining communities / Colin Griffin --
'You and I, all of us ordinary people' : renegotiating 'Britishness' in wartime / John Baxendale --
Postscript : a war imagined / Jeff Hill.
Responsibility: edited by Nick Hayes and Jeff Hill.
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A collection of essays that brings together the historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. It discusses how this war was presented to, and understood by,  Read more...

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